different between dem vs insist
dem
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Pronoun
dem
- Nonstandard form of them.
Determiner
dem
- Nonstandard form of them. (in the sense of "those")
- What are dem fings doing 'ere?
- (Caribbean, Jamaican, MLE, slang) (clitic, suffix) A group of.
- 2009, Dizzee Rascal, Chillin' Wiv Da Man Dem,
- Chillin' wiv da man dem
- Jammin' wiv da man dem
- It's all good in the hood wiv da man dem
- 2010, Plan B, Stay Too Long,
- I’ve got my peeps dem with me shouting pull up your socks,
- Cos we just broke the law and now we're running from cops.
- 2009, Dizzee Rascal, Chillin' Wiv Da Man Dem,
Noun
dem (plural dems)
- Clipping of demonstration.
Anagrams
- D. Me., DME, EDM, Edm, MEd, Med, Med., med
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *dama, from Proto-Indo-European *dm?h?-ó- (“bull”) (compare Irish damh, Ancient Greek ??????? (dámalos, “calf”)), from *demh?- (“to tame”) (compare Latin dom?, English tame).
Noun
dem m (indefinite plural dema, definite singular demi, definite plural demat)
- bull
- main load-bearing beam in a floor
Declension
Synonyms
- ter
References
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?m/, [?d??m], [d??m], [b?m?]
Pronoun
dem (nominative de, possessive deres)
- them (3rd person plural, objective case)
See also
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de?m/ (stressed) (for the pronoun)
- IPA(key): /dem/, /d?m/, /dm?/ (unstressed) (for the article)
Article
dem
- dative masculine/neuter singular of der: the
Declension
Pronoun
dem (relative)
- dative masculine/neuter singular of der: to whom, to which
Declension
Derived terms
- dementsprechend
- demgegenüber
- demzufolge
Further reading
- “dem” in Duden online
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??m?/
Contraction
dem (triggers lenition)
- (Munster) Contraction of de mo (“from my”).
Related terms
Latin
Verb
dem
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of d?
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dem/, [d?m]
Determiner
dem m
- unstressed form of deem
Declension
Nigerian Pidgin
Etymology
From English them.
Pronoun
dem
- them, they
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *d?-, cognate with English time, Albanian ditë, Old Armenian ?? (ti) and Sanskrit ???? (d?tí, “brightness; time”).
Noun
dem f
- time
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?m/
Pronoun
dem
- them
See also
Pennsylvania German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?m/
Etymology
Compare German dem.
Article
dem m (definite)
- the
Declension
Pitcairn-Norfolk
Pronoun
dem
- them
References
- Speak Norfolk Today: an Encyclopaedia of the Norfolk Island Language, by Alice Buffett, 1999.
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?m/
Pronoun
dem (third-person plural)
- them; accusative/dative of de
Declension
Anagrams
- med, med.
Turkish
Etymology 1
Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tam-), from Proto-Turkic *täm- (“to drip”).
Noun
dem
- dew
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Persian ??? (dam).
Noun
dem
- breath
- moment
Synonyms
- (breath): soluk
- (moment): an
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Arabic ??? (dam).
Noun
dem
- (obsolete, poetic) blood
Synonyms
- kan
Wolof
Pronunciation
Verb
dem
- to go
References
Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, ?ISBN, page 100
Zazaki
Etymology
Related to Northern Kurdish dem.
Noun
dem ?
- time
Zhuang
Etymology
From Chinese ? (MC t?em).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /te?m??/
- Tone numbers: dem1
- Hyphenation: dem
Verb
dem (old orthography dem)
- to add
dem From the web:
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- what demon is in annabelle
- what democracy is the us
- what demographic shift was inspired by industrialization
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- what demigod am i
- what demisexual
- what demon possessed annabelle
insist
English
Etymology
Partly from Middle French insister, from Latin ?nsistere; and partly from a back-formation from insistence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Hyphenation: in?sist
Verb
insist (third-person singular simple present insists, present participle insisting, simple past and past participle insisted)
- (with on or upon or (that + ordinary verb form)) To hold up a claim emphatically.
- (I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)
- (sometimes with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be done.
- (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
Translations
Anagrams
- INSTIs, sit-ins, sits in
insist From the web:
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- what insists mean in arabic
- what insist means in tagalog
- what's insist in arabic
- what's insist in urdu
- what's insist in farsi
- insisted what does it mean
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